[Public-List] cutlass housing replacement

[Michael Connolly]

Greg,
My thoughts exactly.  Easy enough to braze, silver solder or even soft solder.  Afterwhich you can have the threads recut with a pipe tap. The soft solder technique is weak, but strength is not required and it will be easier to recut the threads. A metal filler is better than trying to use some sort of sealant. The tapered thread is the sealing surface. Use some Teflon tape or other compound to make to easier to get apart again.  This is a maintenance item,................you don't want to make it any harder to get apart than necessary. OH! BTW don't go back to that same shop......ever!
Michael #133
> On 01/17/2021 1:13 PM Hans Thomas via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> You might be able to salvage the part. Talk to your shop about brazing in to fill the notch. They should be able to do this. Then they can retap. I’d use a jewelers file to get the top two threads cleaned up enough that the tap starts cleanly
> 
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> 
> > On Jan 17, 2021, at 10:01, Greg Wallis via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am in process of replacing the cutlass bearing,
> > 
> > Here's a link to my poor cutlass bearing housing.  Notice the ruined pipe
> > threads.
> > https://drive.google.com/file/d/198AJ_rMD7Lx8QrdksGXhIbeRR6_FPS9t/view
> > 
> > I took the cutlass bearing housing to a shop to have the new bearing
> > pressed in, and they proceeded to overcut the old bearing and cut two deep
> > groves lengthwise through the female pipe threads of the cutlass housing.
> > These threads connect the cutlass bearing housing to the stern tube.  So
> > now the threads are not going to be watertight.  I think that the threads
> > will still function, but they will most certainly leak.
> > 
> > I am hoping somebody has an identical alberg30 cutlass bearing housing that
> > they'd be willing to sell to me.  This would be the best.
> > 
> > If I can't find another one, I am considering to allow this fitting to leak
> > between the stern tube and the cutlass bearing housing.  I think I'd just
> > need to ensure that there is plenty of sealant around the outside of stern
> > tube where it exits the hull.  I guess some water would accumulate in that
> > space and wouldn't really have anywhere to go.
> > 
> > I would also put a generous layer of sealant on the threads themselves, to
> > hopefully prevent it from leaking at all.   Doing this is going to make it
> > very difficult to remove the cutlass bearing housing in the future.
> > 
> > If you have any suggestions or tricks to make these threads watertight
> > again, please do let me know.  How about a thread sealant that would solve
> > this problem and still be possible to unscrew in the future?
> > 
> > Ideally though, if you have a cutlass bearing housing you'd be willing to
> > part with, please let me know!
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Greg
> > hull #165
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